Comments on: Proposed military robot would refuel by eating human bodies. What could possibly go wrong?

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:15:59 +0000

Hey this could work!. Inject our soldiers with tiny IFF transponders. The bots wouldn’t eat them!

By: threeCents

threeCents — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:33:31 +0000

Don’t sleep on the battlefield or you’ll get eaten! I do wonder if this is a hoax.

By: smartalix

smartalix — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:17:48 +0000

“Let’s see, a biomass processing unit samll enough to fit into a discreetly sized robot, yet powerful enough to generate the watts the bot needs?!?!”

It’s called a stomach.

By: The0ne

The0ne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:14:31 +0000

#14
The answer to your question about mines and ammunition is NO. They’re purposely left there to keep other countries from developing. Why fight we you can leave explosive crap behind for the unknowing to wonder about

By: sargasso

sargasso — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:27:01 +0000

Killer Cannibal Zombie Robots! Coming soon, to a Fox News channel, near you.

By: deowll

deowll — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:41:35 +0000

The fuel conversion units wouldn’t be part of the action mobile units. They would need to be a completely separate operation.

That would be one way to tidy up a battlefield. I wonder if they could recycle the landmines and spent munitions while they are at it?

By: Zybch

Zybch — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:15:24 +0000

Mmmm, soylent green

By: The0ne

The0ne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:11:25 +0000

Old tech. China has been doing this for ages Eating fetuses, milking corpse for oil, etc. I’m sure you guys wouldn’t want a link to such things There’s always Google for something like “China sucks”

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:09:47 +0000

Only if they’re send to the fat USA, I doubt they’ll get any real fuel from the skinny taliban.

By: amodedoma

amodedoma — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:08:14 +0000

Let’s see, a biomass processing unit samll enough to fit into a discreetly sized robot, yet powerful enough to generate the watts the bot needs?!?! It doesn’t exsist, the few experiments I’ve seen don’t come anywhere near generating the energy necessary to move their own weight. There are plenty of better alternatives. This sounds like BS, or a sci fi flick ‘screamers’ or the book by Dick ‘second variety’ as winston said. Speculative and highly improbable, but that doesn’t mean DoD wouldn’t spend millions investigating this.

By: AdmFubar

AdmFubar — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:43:29 +0000

hhmm i wonder if these robots know to pick out the grenades the dead ones are still carrying…

By: paddler

paddler — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:39:53 +0000

Nice, I like that we plan to treat enemy fallen soldiers as we expect them to treat ours. There once was respect for things like that. Think of the outrage if we discovered they were grinding up our dead Marines and using them for fuel?

Where is the bullshit meter by the way?

By: winston

winston — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:08:43 +0000

This reminds me of the Philip K Dick story “Second Variety”.
I used to think his stories and novels were unrealistic and paranoid but so much is now coming to pass.

By: Poppa Boner

Poppa Boner — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:18:19 +0000

Maybe it just eats the black ones?

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:44:37 +0000

If the robot gets hungry and can’t find any dead bodies, would it be permitted to call in an air strike from a Predator done?

ROTM!!